Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-03-31

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By ELI ID. AXE.
RONTON. MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
THE Indian who killed lieutenant Mott
and wounded Frank Porter has been cap
tured, and is now in the guardhouse at
Globe, Arl.
TIszA, the Hungarian prime minister, Is
negotiating with the Rothschilds for q
loan to cover the extra credits, recently
voted, for the expenses of the 1andsturm.
BITTER nl-feeling has been renewed in
Germany at the severe tone of criticisms
in French papers On the Emperors birth
day and kindred topics. War talk is very
common.
GEORGE MANN, a notorious character OF
Louisville, KY, was sentenced on the pod
to the penitentiary for life for the muir
der of his mistress, Annie Mann, IN Au-
gust, 1886.
Much opposition is manifested throu gh
out Mexico to the National administers
tion's tariff reductions, which are believed
to be exceptionally beneficial to Anne ricar
enterprises.
AUsTRIA's representative at the Emper-
or's birthday festivities at Berlin has
been ordered to Vienna to give an officia
report of his impressions regarding Ger
many's intentions.
AN italian named Franzini was arrested
at Paris on the I'D on charge of murder
ing Nine. Regnault and her maid. a
quantity of bloody clothing was found in
his apartment Franzini has confessed.
CARDINAL GIBBONS took formal posses
sion of his titular church at Rome on the
18th. The proceedings were very impress
sive and elaborate and made up a most
memorable day for Americans at the holy
city.
ACkBEE dispatch was received from
Rome, announcing that the Holy Father,
motu proprio, desiring to show honor to
the Most Rev. Archbishop Corrigan, has
named him prelate assistant to the pom
titical throne.
THE Comptroller of the Currency has au-
-thorized the LaGrand National Bank of
LaGrand, Ore, to commence business
with a capital of $4,000; also the First
National Bank of Aberdeen, Miss, with
$50, 600 capital.
THE issue of standard silver dollars
from the minis during the week ending
March 10 was s4o6, sos; during the CORES
ponding period of last year Sab, $50. The
shipments of fractional silver coin since
March 1 amounts to S232, 03S.
THE Pennsylvania Board of Pardons, on
the 23d, refused rehearing in the case of
Milton Weston, the Chicago capitalist,
now undergoing Imprisonment in the
Riverside penitentiary for completely in
the Murraysville gas-well riots.
BRIGADIER-GENERAL ORLA NDo B. WILL
COX, commanding the Department of the
Missouri, will be placed on the retired list
April Is prox. The probabilities are that
Colonel Wesley Merritt, superintendent
of the West Point Military Academy, will
succeed him.
1T is learned on good authority that Sec
rotary Manning's successor will not be
appointed before April I, the date upon
which Mr.. Manning's resignation takes
effect. The belief still prevails that AS
6 STINT Secretary Fairchild will receive
t , appointment.
The altar service recently stolen from
St Stephens Roman Catholic Church in
New York was carried by John Taylor,
of No. IS Duffield street, Brooklyn, to the
Second precinct police station of that city
ON the 22d. He said he found it hidden in
a pile of castings in Adams street, Brook
lyn-
THE Commissioner of Pensions is in
formed of the arrest at Kansas City and
the impending trial of one Bragdon, alias
st. Clair, who has been fleeing pension
claimants by representing himself as an
officer of the bureau and receIv22S money
for a promise to promote action upon
their claims.
LIEUTENANT A. G. WINTERHALTER, of
the navy, has been ordered to Paris to
represent the Uaited States at the inter-
national congress of astronomers, w hich
meets in that city April 16. After tHs
congress adjourns he will go to London,
Kew, Greenwich and Hamburg to inspect
the observatories.
A-SENSATION mas DSen CauS6E IN SG.
Petersburg by the removal Of Colonel
Sassoulitch from the command of the
.grenadiers to regiment on the Siberian
frontier. The grenadiers, it is said, were
becoming imbued with revolutionary
ideas Colonel Sassoulitch is a brother of
the famous We're Saesoulitch.
A sBysl TON has been caused in Canada
by the receipt Of a cablegram from
London, announcing thst Sir John A Mac
Donald, Premier of Canada, is to resign
and go to England as Canadian High Com
missioner, and that he will then be ele-
waited to the peerage and return as Gov
-ernor-General, to succeed Lord Lans-
cdowne.
EXPORTS from the United States during
February past were valued at $54, 763, 24S,
and imports to the United States at s5S,-
976, ?5a For the twelve months ended
February IS, 1887, exports aggregated,
$729, S07 $50, and imports 500, 257, 534. Dur
ing February past 14,3H Immigrants ar
rived in the United States, against 9, 263 in
February, 1885.
THE President, on the 24th, appointed O.
8. Stratus, of New York, to be Envoy Ex-
traordinary and Minister Plenipoten tiary
Of the United States to Turkey; Harold
Marsh Sewau of Maine, Consul-General of
the United States at Apia, Samoan